The word revolution has been made banal by the
advertising and technology industries. Each new disposable
diaper or flashing widget that allows you to consume products
while gawking at your computer screen is heralded as a milestone
in human development. Since advertising and corporations have
appropriated the language of liberation and turned liberation
into a consumed event, we could appropriate their language
and describe what we are proposing as a restructuring
of society. Or perhaps a down sizing of intransigent
government and corporate oligarchies. Maybe what we are performing
is a hostile takeover of our own everyday lives.
Instead of kowtowing to the will of Viagra-addled marketers
and Madison Avenue hacks; we've decided to take the language
of liberation, back.
Like the brave Stonewall revelers who fought their oppressors
in the streets of New York City, and started the Gay
movement; we are commandeering the language and its popular
usage to fit our own purposes as well. To the ice cream social-ites
of the rabid right, the homosexual community ruined a perfectly
good word when they hijacked the term gay to describe
their abhorrent and godless lifestyle. Likewise
we will force connotations of abhorrent behavior and godlessness
to accompany the term revolution.
In the new popular idiom, the word revolution will evoke
images of sweaty protesters packed too tightly in city streets.
It will evoke the pungent odors of tear gas and adrenaline
mixed with hints of petchouli oil and clove. It will evoke
dreams of a perennial white Christmas where the glint of glass
shards from the shattered windows of looted corporate boutiques
will blanket sidewalks like a crisp crystalline snow.
We will affix a modifier to the word revolution
In order to distinguish our brand of radical change from the
muddle of petite revolutions that the culture industry inflicts
upon us daily. We will call our revolution Real Revolution!